Psychopathic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder.
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Haldol.) In cases that do not respond to medication, electroshock therapy (ECT) is sometimes valuable.
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Sensory deprivation (being put in a room often without windows, away from family, friends and all that is familiar), Sensory overload (being tethered to noisy machines day and night), Pain (which may not be adequately controlled in an ICU), Sleep deprivation, Disruption of the normal day-night rhythm, or simply The loss of control over their […]
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Relating to both the mind and the body or to the mind-body interrelationships. From the Greek words psych(emacr) meaning the organ of thought and judgment and somatikos meaning the body.